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The Bund

TAKE A walk along the Bund (which in old Shanghailander English should be pronounced to rhyme with "fund"), once the most famous street in Asia. The major firms of the Far East had their headquarters in the buildings facing the river. First amongst them is the former Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, which after 1949 was used as the city Communist Party HQ. It is now empty, the Hongkong Bank having declined an offer to take it back. For a list of the buildings and information on their original owners and functions, click on the Click! Card. In 1992, the waterfront was raised for anti-flooding purposes and to provide more room for visitors to take photographs of each other.


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